I see that this YEC conference is occurring soon - and being held not at a church or conference centre but at a Church of England Academy (but not during school hours).

https://www.facebook.com/Leicester-crea ... 379602710/Leicester Creation Conference 2016ProgrammeFriday 7 October (evening)7.00 Introduction7.05 Soft tissue preservation and carbon-14 in the fossil record – Steve Taylor8.05 Refreshment break8.20 The day I changed my mind – Sylvia BakerSaturday 8 October (all day)9.45 Introduction9.50 Just dust? Does it matter where we came from? – Steve Lloyd10.50 Refreshment break11.20 Choice of four seminars“And it was very good”: reconciling the goodness of God with predators andparasites – Gordon WilsonCreationism in the classroom – Sylvia BakerGeological evidence against the millions-of-years time scale – Paul GarnerGenesis: unique revelation or ancient myth? – Simon Turpin12.20 Lunch break1.20 Ape-men, ancestors and Adam – Paul Garner2.20 Refreshment break2.40 Choice of four seminarsThe uniqueness of man – Stuart BurgessHow did animals and plants spread so quickly after the Flood? – Dominic StathamHorrid histories: is the destruction of the Canaanites a moral problem? – Steve LloydThe evolution we believe in: natural selection and the Genesis kinds – Matthew Pickhaver3.40 Refreshment break3.50 The testimony of the entombed: what do the fossils really tell us? – Gordon Wilson4.50 Closing remarks

There are also links referring to certain of the conference speakers on the websites of AiG, CMI, and Biblical Creation Ministries (which has morphed into the Biblical Creation Trust):http://www.biblicalcreationtrust.org/

A key speaker is Stuart Burgess! Who helped Team GB win so many cycling medals in Rio (I jest not).

Mountkeen wrote:And Ken Sham is speaking on three days. Kenny must be desperate to drum up trade for his failing mythological theme park (aka Ark Encounter).

This is the car park on on a weekend afternoon in mid-summer. Circa 75 cars in the car park.

At this rate investors will have to wait for the Second Coming to get their money back.

It doesn't surprise me in the least. The creationists are dead. Look at who is speaking at the creationist conferences. Same tired old names from a decade of more ago. They are just talking to themselves.

Ark Encounter needs somewhere around 5,400 visitors per day, every day it's open if it is to get the more than two million visitor goal Ken Sham promised the locals. The Kentucky taxpayers are going to be on the hook for more than $100 million if this place doesn’t bring in the massive revenue he claimed it would.

Mountkeen wrote:Ark Encounter needs somewhere around 5,400 visitors per day, every day it's open if it is to get the more than two million visitor goal Ken Sham promised the locals. The Kentucky taxpayers are going to be on the hook for more than $100 million if this place doesn’t bring in the massive revenue he claimed it would.

Received this link from a YEC friend on Facebook. Not sure of if this is just AiG's spin on things, but it still looks short of 5,400 a day:

He's accusing the local town of not having enough hotels. This after taking their municipal bond, obtaining a cut price rate on property taxes, refusing to employ locals unless they sign up to a "statement of faith" and then skimming money from their wages to pay off AiG's loans.

He's accusing the local town of not having enough hotels. This after taking their municipal bond, obtaining a cut price rate on property taxes, refusing to employ locals unless they sign up to a "statement of faith" and then skimming money from their wages to pay off AiG's loans.